To Anton Olea's website, providing a gallery of insightful paintings and graphics - up unitl now. Anton Olea is an urban painter living in Sydney, Australia. He was born and raised in Chile then came to Australia in the late 1980s. Anton has been painting for more than 20 years and has gained a much respected reputation through his artworks. Having various exhibitions in Australia and a successful exhibit in Italy, Florence, he has developed different themes and topics. Recently Anton has been painting criticism of todays absorbtion with technology and lack of imagination. How humanity should be aware of the consequences that may affect our next generations. He uses a lot of mixed media, oil and acrylic materials for a realistic effect.

"The range of works by Anton Olea, a Chilean-Australian artist, is more figurative, roughly categorised (by the artist himself) as surrealism. Some of the works are dreams and images from South America, some of them are more intellectual, some have a political message." (MARY MACHEN 28/03/2000 - Daily Telegraph"

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